We developers, especially those of us who consider ourselves activists, have been too slow to move this stuff forward. I’m fairly certain that is because most of us are “savvy enough” to use the tools that exist, etc. The movement has been growing to evolve these tools to catch up with the needs (well...) of modern users, but that evolution is really just beginning.
One among many such projects, I am a developer at LEAP ( https://leap.se ). We are working on this very problem. We’re getting ready for public beta of our Encrypted Internet Proxy ( VPN for now, Tor and more features to come) and will be rolling out truly end-to-end secure email, IM, SMS, and voice. Also calendar, contacts, and possibly password management. All client encrypted. All syncing across your devices. All in an Open Source, Trust No One, user friendly way.
There are many tools and services out there already, but the ones that the technology un-savvy can use happily mostly run in a centralized fashion, requiring that you trust your service provider. No different, except in mission statement, than what people use today with big mail or chat providers and social networks. Would it were not so, but we live in an era where that trust is a vulnerability that we are seeing exploited.
Way to go, dcurtis, ranting about web standards and webkit's greatness while your website doesn't render sanely on my android devices' webkit browsers.
One among many such projects, I am a developer at LEAP ( https://leap.se ). We are working on this very problem. We’re getting ready for public beta of our Encrypted Internet Proxy ( VPN for now, Tor and more features to come) and will be rolling out truly end-to-end secure email, IM, SMS, and voice. Also calendar, contacts, and possibly password management. All client encrypted. All syncing across your devices. All in an Open Source, Trust No One, user friendly way.
There are many tools and services out there already, but the ones that the technology un-savvy can use happily mostly run in a centralized fashion, requiring that you trust your service provider. No different, except in mission statement, than what people use today with big mail or chat providers and social networks. Would it were not so, but we live in an era where that trust is a vulnerability that we are seeing exploited.